“Cancelled?? Whaaat??” Just last month, CTV was bragging it had the “No. 1 new series of the season” with Missing, which hit a high of 1.8 million Canadian viewers in April. Now Missing, along with many other U.S.network shows, are not just missing but finished. The Ashey Judd drama was cancelled along with almost two
CBC and TSN were probably counting on long playoff runs from the mighty Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins. Now Sidney Crosby and the Sedin twins are out of the race for the Stanley Cup, and Southern teams such as Phoenix and Nashville are on to Round Two.With Detroitalso eliminated, and Ottawa do or die to
TV titans Pelley, Crull, Stewart, Dion and Robertson. Photo: CityNews So we were all sitting in the dark with a bunch of ad folk early Thursday morning when something crazy happened at the TV Day symposium in Toronto: news.Not at the industry day itself, which was organized by the folks at the Television Bureau of Canada.
The cast of NCIS takes the cake. Photo: Michael Yarish/CBS With American Idol not the Death Star it once was, NCIS has a real shot at finishing the season as the most-watched show on U.S. network television. That’s pretty astounding considering NCIS is in its ninth season. A scripted series hasn’t finished a season as
Touch twosome David Mazouz and Kiefer Sutherland Not many stars could get away with headlining a TV show called Touch. You wouldn’t catch, say, Charlie Sheen doing a show called Touch.Maybe that was what Kiefer Sutherland, who stars in tonight’s sneak peak at Touch, was saying to Sheen two weeks ago when the two old
Josh Lucas of The Firm: still in witness protection plan? PASADENA, CA–In Canada, The Firm got off to a so-so start. In the United States, it was sacked by football.The two-hour pilot, which aired Sunday from 9 to 11 p.m., opened to an overnight, average audience of 1,075,000 viewers in Canada. Less promising for Global
The cast of The Firm: wishing they were still in Mississauga PASADENA, CA–The stars and showrunner of The Firm met with critics Friday at press tour and faced a pretty stiff cross examination.The shot-in-Toronto legal thriller stars Josh Lucas, Molly Parker, Juliette Lewis and Callum Keith Rennie and premieres Sunday night at 8 p.m. on
Winner Sophie Clark with Jeff Probst It looked like Hockey Night in Canada was the most-watched show in Canada last week–until BBM recalculated Sunday’s Survivor take.The original overnight, estimated tally for the 8 to 10 p.m. two-hour finale was 2,063,000 Global viewers, the 10 to 11 p.m. reunion show 2,272,000.Don’t snuff out that tiki torch